Dying on the Vine by Aaron Elkins Series: Gideon Oliver #17 Published by Berkley Publishing Group on Dec. 4, 2012 Genres: Mystery Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Switcheroo Also by this author: A Dangerous Talent, Switcheroo It was the unwavering custom… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. We’ve had an eventful… Read more »
Cover fail: This is just so wrong, I’m still shaking my head in disbelief. So, apparently, are a lot of other folks. I guess that whoever self-published these three public-domain novels hasn’t actually read them. On a happier note, Joe Konrath posted an excellent article on “How to sell ebooks”… Read more »
Deborah Harkness announced on Facebook today that the screenplay for the movie adaptation of A Discovery of Witches is finished! According to Ms. Harkness, Warner Brothers bought the film rights in 2011, and it will be produced by Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan. The screenplay is by David… Read more »
Categories: YA fantasy; fairy-tales retold Series: Princess #3 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2012 Book Source: Public library What a delightful ending to a wonderful trilogy! Though the focus in this book is on youngest sister Petunia, now 16, we get to see all twelve princess again (along with a few of their husbands.) … Read more »
Categories: YA fantasy; fairy-tales retold Series: Princess #2 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2010 Book Source: My collection (e-book) I loved Jessica Day George’s Princess of the Midnight Ball, so it still surprises me that I waited over a year and a half to read its sequel, Princess of Glass. (Then… Read more »
Categories: YA fantasy; fairy-tales retold Series: Princess #1 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2009 Book Source: My collection (e-book) I love a good retelling of a classic fairy tale, and Jessica Day George’s Princess of the Midnight Ball is one of the best. George breathes life into the story of the… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. It’s been a… Read more »
Happy Groundhog Day! By D. Gordon E. Robertson (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Do you suppose he’ll see his shadow this year? I hope so; we haven’t had much winter around here this year (the last cold snap excepted), and I know the kids would… Read more »
Photo by Oliver Hammond, Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license. Are you a young (14- to 19-year-old) writer? Do you write SF, fantasy, and/or horror? Then you have a month left to apply for the 2013 Alpha Workshop, a yearly 10-day writers’ workshop for teen authors. This year’s author guests… Read more »
